The surgical and physiologic construct of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) leads to a unique set of potential complications that require routine follow-up by an experienced bariatric surgeon. Chronic abdominal pain after RYGB is particularly challenging and often requires thoughtful workup and possible...
CMP = chronic musculoskeletal pain , NRS = numeric rating scale. Full size image Table 1 Participant baseline characteristics (n = 139). Full size table Effects of exercise on pain and associated factors We analyzed the change in pain after the intervention, as well as ...
Patients may present with vague, crampy abdominal pain with or without vomiting. This can be an acute or subacute presentation and may be intermittent. In a gastric bypass patient, these symptoms must be worked up promptly with a CT scan to look for an internal hernia. A CT scan has a lo...
Preoperative opioid use, tobacco use, and development of persistence, recurrence, or a second primary tumor were associated with chronic opioid use after surgery, and both preoperative and chronic opioid use were associated with decreased survival. Introduction Chronic pain is a major concern for ...
Surgical treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia with splenic artery-to-superior mesenteric artery bypass: a case report Chronic mesenteric ischemia is a rare, but important cause of abdominal pain with high mortality and morbidity rates. Postprandial abdominal pain, sitophobia and weight loss are the...
Abdominal pain Bloating Blood and mucus in the stool Loose, watery stools Fever Nausea Urgent need to have a bowel movement One serious symptom of prolonged diarrhea in the elderly is dehydration, which can be dangerous if the individual does not receive medical attention or rehydrates. These sid...
Patients typically present with “intestinal angina.” Postprandial abdominal pain occurring within 15 to 30 minutes and lasting up to 4 hours that is associated with a fear of eating, ultimately results in weight loss. Additional nonspecific symptoms include nausea, vomiting, early satiety, diarrhea...
which found decreased pain severity after the pandemic’s onset [10,11]. However, reliance on school-based or clinical samples may lead to over-estimating the population proportion of children with significant chronic pain, and may not be representative of the national burden of chronic pain in ...
Generally, the child presents with recurrent vomiting, abdominal pain, (sometimes fatal) hypoglycemia, growth retardation, liver failure, and renal tubulopathy (in the case of long-term fructose exposure). Older patients who survive infancy develop a natural avoidance of sweets and fruits [110].>...
Even though previous studies have shown that 40% to 60% of PICU patients have hypomagnesemia [177], in 974 critically ill children with sepsis, after controlling for confounding factors (acute KD and Ca and K metabolic disturbances), hypermagnesemia (2.43 mg/dL or 1 mmol/L) was the only ...